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    13/05/2022

    Death of John Coates

    We have learned with sadness of the death of John Coates, Professor at Cambridge, and member of our department from 1978 to 1984.

    A tribute to John by Jean-Michel Bismut, Laurent Clozel, and Luc Illusie can be found here (in French).

    02/11/2021

    Death of Nessim Sibony

    We are saddened to learn of the death of our colleague, Professor Emeritus Nessim Sibony, who once headed the LMO, and also the Harmonic Analysis team.

    After important works in Several Complex Variables, holomorphic convexity, positive currents, invariant metrics, and d-bar analysis, Nessim Sibony pivoted to Multidimensional Holomorphic Dynamics, a field that he truly founded in France. His famous collaborations with John Erik Fornaess, and then Tien-Cuong Dinh, punctuated the development of this field with remarkable results. Furthermore, his ex-Ph.D. students --- Vincent Guedj, Charles Favre, Romain Dujardin, Gabriel Vigny --- still work in this area currently.

    In the …